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This Category of Antique & Rare Books is created by popular demand.  Our best and long-lasting customers are investors/traders who read a lot, a lot of books on a lot of topics.  These selected items are mainly from family libraries, not in brand new condition, but in Very Good Collectible Condition.  One Copy Only on First-Come-First-Serve basis.  Our prices are all inclusive.

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"Old Bruin" Commdore Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) by Samuel Eliot Morison
(hardcover of 482 pages, 1967, in 80% new condition) 
 US$32/HK$250
Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture by Abdul Halim Sharar (Translated and edited by E.S. Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain,   Hardcover of 295 pages, published in Great Britain 1975, in 90% new condition) US$45/HK$350
A STUDY OF HISTORY: The Geneses of Civilizations (Part I: Introduction) by Arnold J. Toynbee
(Oxford University Press, printed in USA 1962, paperback of 484 pages. 
Condition: Very Good)
 US$29/HK$226
A STUDY OF HISTORY: The Geneses of Civilizations (Part II)
by Arnold J. Toynbee
(Oxford University Press, printed in USA 1962, paperback of 452 pages. 
Condition: Very Good)
 US$29/HK$226
A STUDY OF HISTORY: The Growths of Civilization
by Arnold J. Toynbee
(Oxford University Press, printed in USA 1962, paperback of 551 pages. 
Condition: Very Good)
 US$32/HK$250
A STUDY OF HISTORY: (set of the above 3 Volumes) US$80/HK$624
THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN:  A Tragedy of The Crimean War by Christopher Hibbert                                              
(1st Book Club Edition 1984.  Hardcover 338 pages.  Condition: Used Like New.)
 US$32/HK$250
LITERARY ESSAYS OF EZRA POUND edited with an introduction by T.S. Eliott
(Faber and Faber paperback, 464 pages.    Condition: Used: Good.)
 US$25/HK$195
THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA: THE FOUNDERS by Philip Woodruff
Published by Jonathan Cape - Bedford Square, London, 1954.   Hardcover of 402 pages
 US$85/HK$663
THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA: THE GUARDIANS by Philip Woodruff
Published by Jonathan Cape - Bedford Square, London, 1955.   Hardcover of 385 pages
 US$85/HK$663
THE MEN WHO RULED INDIA
(Two Books together - the Set with Slip-Case)		 US$150/HK$1170
MARDI & A Voyage Thither, An Allegorical Romance
by Herman Melville
Capricorn Books, 1964 - Softcover Heavy Volume of 584 pages. With an introduction by H. Bruce Franklin, a hard-to-find extraordinary book in American Literature.
 US$39/HK$304
THE UNQUIET FRONTIER:  Border Tensions in the Sino-Soviet Conflict
by George .N. Patterson.
First Printing, June 1966, International Studies Group, Hong Kong.  Softcover of 120 pages inserted with maps all clean and tidy, a rare book for collectors.
 US$45/HK$350
STRAUSS' NEW LIFE OF JESUS by David Friderich Strauss.  Authorized Translation in two volumes, 2nd Edition, published by Williams and Norgate , 1879.  Both hardcovers in reasonably good condition, though Volume One requires re-binding, Volume Two is tightly bound.  A stamp showing "Shakespear and Company, Kilometer Zero Paris" appears on the inside front cover in both volumes.   Sandy stains are shown on inside covers and the last few pages.  All the contents (439 pages in Vol. 1, 440 pages inVol.2) are complete with no markings or foldings. This collector's item has to be sold as a two-volume set.  US$205/HK$1599
ALICE IN WONDERLAND, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
by Lewis Carroll.
This is a collective item for Young People, Item 836 on Everyman's Library Series, published by J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1952. Pocket-size hardcover of 335 pages		 US$25/HK$195
CHINESE CHARACTERS, Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classication and Signification
by Dr.L. Wieger, S.J.
Second Ed., Enlarged and Revised, 1965. Softcover 820 pages 		US$49/HK$382
IBERIA: Spanish Travels and Reflections by James A. Michener with Photographs by Robert Vara
This is the 1968 First Printing, reprinted in Taiwan.  Green cloth-binding Hardcover of 818 pages.
 US$50/HK$390
INDIA: A Modern History  by Percival Spear
First print 1961, published by The University of Michigan Press. Dark cloth-binding Hardcover of 491 pages of contents plus 19 pages of Index, all clean and tidy.		 US$65/HK$507
THE TREE OF CULTURE by Ralph Linton
This is the 1955 First Print. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. Dark cloth-binding Hardcover of 692 pages of contents plus 16 pages of Index, all clean and tidy.
 US$85/HK$663
THE ARTS OF KOREA: An Illustrated History by Evelyn McCune
First Printing, 1962.  Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company of Tokyo-Japan. Printed in Japan on fancy art-paper. HEAVY Volume of 451 pages with beautiful coloured and b/w pictures, and with a shiny dust-cover.
US$90/HK$702
A Handbook to THE ESSAYS OF Michel de Montaigne which includes the Notes Upon the Text of the Translation by George B. Ives and a series of Comments Upon the Essays by Grace Norton to accompany Mr. Ives' translation. Cloth-binding hardcover. Published by The Heritage Press, 1946.   Book has been well kept in very good condition in a family library.  (We also have the Complete Set of 2 Volumes of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, each at US$50).  US$50/HK$390
IN DARKEST AFRICA, TWO VOL. SET, by Henry M. Stanley with maps.  Leather Bound - with faded gold imprint of author's name and shape of Africa on front cover. Binding still tight, though re-binding is recommended.  All inside pages (547 pages in Vol.1, and 540 pages in Vol.2) are clean and tidy with no markings.  Only a family stamps was printed on the inside front cover.  First Print by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1891.  An out-of-print collector's item.  Must be sold as a 2-Vol. Set. US$275/HK$2145
EAST ASIA THE MODERN TRANSFORMATION: A Scholarly, Concise, and Eminently Readable History of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian Civilization since the 19th century
by John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert M. Craig (This is a heavy volume of 955 pages. First printing (Modern Asia Edition), 1965.  Printed in Japan.  Dark cloth-binding hardcover with golden inscriptions, and with dust-cover.)
 US$75/HK$585
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD GIBBON as originally edited by Lord Sheffield
Oxford University Press, 1959.  The World's Classics Series No.139.
Pocket-size Hardcover of 340 pages.  A collector's item.		 US$39/HK$304
THE VARIETIES OF HISTORY from Voltaire to the Present
Edited, Selected and Introduced by Fritz Stern.  Meridian Softcoverof 428 pages		 US$15/HK$117

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